Nationalisation of South Africa’s mines needs to be debated and not dismissed, the head of Africa’s top gold miner said on Wednesday.
The N-word is seriously back in contention after the M-politician used the ANCYL’s conference to push the nationalisation of mining policy.
Watch our short, sharp summary of what Julius Malema and Jacob Zuma said in their speeches to ANC Youth League delegates.
Exiting ANCYL secretary general Vuyiswa Tulelo speaks to the <i>M&G</i> about the league’s congress, nationalisation and issues with some ANC leaders.
Have a look at excerpts featuring ANCYL president Julius Malema in the documentary Mining for Change: A story of South African Mining.
Nationalisation is a fait accompli and the ANC is merely looking for the best way to implement it, claims Julius Malema.
The National Union of Mineworkers has come out in support of the youth league’s push to nationalise mines, in terms set out by the Freedom Charter.
Calling for SA to stop exporting raw minerals, Julius Malema has also outlined the ANCYL’s plans for land expropriation and nationalisation of mines.
Zimbabwe will effectively nationalise half the country’s key resources sector by setting up a sovereign wealth fund to own 51% stakes of mining firms.
The ANC Youth League promised on Monday to "get the correct context" of leader Julius Malema’s call at the weekend for revolutionaries to reproduce.
ANCYL sought to re-assure Anglo American on Monday that it would not be the only mining company shares would be grabbed from.
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/ 24 February 2011
The South African Chamber of Mines on Thursday welcomed the appointment of independent researchers to investigate the nationalisation of SA’s mines.
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/ 23 February 2011
The ANCYL is opposed to the inclusion of independent researcher Paul Jordaan in the ANC team probing the viability of nationalising mines, it says.
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/ 21 February 2011
The leadership of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA wants mines nationalised and cooperatives established as a way of dealing with poverty.
Talk of nationalisation has advisers pointing to West Africa as a "safer" environment.
Susan Shabangu is still opposed to the nationalisation of mines even though the ANC is researching the issue.
Research on the nationalisation of mines was being carried out by the ANC, the ANC Youth League said on Sunday.
The ANC Youth League, which is pushing hard for nationalisation, is at the centre of disputes within the ANC’s economic transformation committee.
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/ 19 November 2010
Whatever we think of the politics of nationalisation, the questions is will it fly in this new world? The <i>M&G</i> weighs in.
The ANC Youth League does not want academic research on the nationalisation of mines, and it does not want the research to be independent of the ANC.
Julius Malema has promised to ensure that ANC leaders who oppose his efforts to put the country’s mines in the state’s hands are removed.
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/ 16 September 2010
Nationalising South Africa’s mines was not part of government policy, the country’s finance minister said on Thursday.
The debate surrounding nationalisation of mines
should not be based on an ideological or emotional feeling, ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe said.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema on Tuesday attacked ANC leaders who denied that nationalisation was party policy.
It is unlikely that ANC leaders will buy into the league’s argument for the state to take over the mines.
The nationalisation of mines could not become ANC policy by 2012, secretary general Gwede Mantashe said in the United Kingdom on Friday.